Quotes About Policy

I would have a democratic process for people to get together and talk about the way they want the government to conduct business with China.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

We value integrity of information, we value processes, cyber- security. These are things important to the government.

Government has to produce affordable housing. Government has to produce answers.

I will do everything necessary to ensure we can export because that way Argentina will produce dollars.

Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush.

What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won't pay as much attention to their science.

The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.

We are importing Russian natural gas which is not produced in an environmentally conscious manner. If the states that are blocking the pipelines were truly concerned about the environment, they would look to where the natural gas would be coming from.

China saves too much, produces too much, sells too much to Americans and consumes too little.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Protectionist politicians cannot stand the notion of a fossil-fuel-rich America maintaining record levels of production through exports.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

Despite its many critics, hydraulic fracturing will change the nature of energy production.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

We're so overregulated as a country that we just crushed our productivity.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

It's critically important for Europe to have a different way to think about the role of agriculture in society and the economy here.

The spirit of cooperation between the Centre and states has been diluted in many ways.

The arc of technology is in the direction of unbreakable encryption, and no laws are going to get in the way of that reality.

The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.